An Urgent Cry for God’s Swift Deliverance

Behold, I stand at the door, and knock if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. Jesus Christ. John 1:17

Sandor Viczian

December 30, 2025
4:00 pm

Psalm 70 is a brief but intense prayer in which David urgently cries out to God for immediate deliverance. The psalm reflects a situation of distress where enemies seek the psalmist’s harm, while the faithful are called to rejoice in God’s salvation. It emphasizes the contrast between those who oppose God’s servant and those who love His salvation. The repeated plea for haste underscores human dependence on God in moments of vulnerability. The chapter ultimately teaches that true help, honor, and rescue come from the Lord alone, not from human strength or delay.

Psalms 70:1 – 70:5

  1 To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David, to bring to remembrance. [Make haste], O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O Lord.
  2 Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.
  3 Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha.
  4 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.
  5 But I [am] poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou [art] my help and my deliverer; O Lord, make no tarrying.

STATEMENT OF FAITH
We Believe…

In one God, eternally existent in three persons – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit;

In the absolute deity and full humanity of our Lord Jesus Christ, God the Son, His virgin birth, His sinless life, His miracles, His substitutionary and atoning death for all through His shed blood, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and His personal return in power and glory to judge the living and the dead;

In the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling the Christian is empowered to live a holy life, to witness and work for the Lord Jesus Christ;

In the divine inspiration of all 66 books of the Old and New Testaments as originally given, guaranteeing their infallibility, entire trustworthiness, and supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct;

That all people are sinners and cannot save themselves. Salvation is received as a free gift of God’s grace, apart from works, through repentance and personal faith in the redemptive work of Christ and the regenerating power of the Holy Spirit;

In the bodily resurrection of both the saved and the lost, the eternal blessedness of the saved, and the eternal punishment of the lost;

In the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ who are thus members of His Body, the Church, whose work is the worship of God, perfecting the saints, and evangelization of the world.

Sandor Viczian